About

All our lives are collections curated by memory… The sum total of that deep archive is what makes us who we are.

–Richard Fortey, Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

I’m from Savannah, Georgia. I moved up north to attend Swarthmore College, then worked for a few years in Philadelphia’s nonprofit/arts and culture sector before heading to graduate school.

Along with my husband Erik, I now live in Providence, Rhode Island, where I am a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Brown University. I study nineteenth-century cultural history and am working on a dissertation about phrenology, the self, and antebellum popular culture.